Bellamy bemoans Millennium pitch
Wales captain Craig Bellamy slammed the facilities and pitch at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium after the 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Liechtenstein.
"It's not the greatest pitch, it's a rugby pitch, they don't look after us at all here," Bellamy told BBC Sport.
"Games like this there's no atmosphere in the crowd. No disrespect to the 12,500 who turned out but with an empty arena we have to generate our own.
"No excuses, though, we know that we have to do better."
Bellamy's criticism of the 72,500-capacity, Welsh Rugby Union-owned Millennium Stadium pitch was echoed by manager John Toshack and other members of the team.
The Wales boss was angered before last month's opening World Cup game against Azerbaijan as the removal of the portable pitch for a Madonna concert at the stadium left the playing surface bare in the week of the game, disrupting his training plans.
At the start of the qualifying campaign, Toshack asked the Football Association of Wales to consider moving games to smaller venues around Wales to generate more atmosphere.
Wrexham's Racecourse ground, Cardiff's Ninian Park and Swansea's Liberty Stadium were the touted alternatives, the latter the largest at 20,000 capacity.
The FAW are understood to have a 25-year deal for the use of the Millennium Stadium, but this does not tie them exclusively into playing every game there.
Despite his concerns about the pitch, Bellamy was happy to have sneaked the win over Liechtenstein.
"It could have been more convincing, I missed the penalty, but at the end of the day it's a win," he said after his first start for nearly a year.
"I needed my 80 minutes, it felt like my first start for nearly a year, I hope to get a good run in now.
"If I hadn't got that under my belt it would have been difficult for me to start against Germany on Wednesday."
The West Ham striker's first-half penalty miss was the third Wales spot-kick miss by three different players in the last three qualifying matches.
"If we get a penalty against Germany I don't know who'll take it yet," Bellamy told BBC Sport Wales.
"I've been lucky in my career in that I've always played in sides with better penalty takers than me.
"Jason Koumas was fancying a go in this game, I'm sure he'll want to step up if we have a chance in Germany."
Wolves midfielder David Edwards opened the scoring at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium with his first international strike.
"We made hard work of it, but it was great to get that win for the team," said the man-of-the-match.
"We played nowhere near our potential, we have to be a lot quicker and much less sloppy.
"I was thrilled to get my first goal, hopefully there are more to come."
